On Thursday 16 April 2009 01:31:31 John Summerfield wrote: > Mark Post wrote: > > For the benefit of those "listening in" let's first state that what is > > being discussed here is openSUSE, not SLES with a support contract. So, > > the rules are different to start with. > > Similarly, Fedora is run by a lot of volunteers (plus Red Hat employees). > > I imagine it would help if you can reproduce the problem in the > supported product. I understand SLES can readily be downloaded for > evaluation (and nothing prevents your evaluating it forever, though the > support does time out), and I've seen SLED (the desktop version) on > magazine DVDs. > > RH/Fedora have a problem that a package, such as dhcpd, in Fedora is not > considered the same as even the same release of dhcpd in RHEL. I think > their system (the same bugzilla database is used for RHEL and Fedora) > needs to be able to detect and flag "all relevant" in some way, so that > the official support person at RH for dhcpd in RHEL finds out when there > is a problem in the Fedora version. > > Whether SUSE/openSUSE have an analogous problem, I don't know. > John,
This is an issue with YaST2 and Sax2 themselves, not third-party packages. It's probably the same in SLES and SLED; I think that it's been that way since before release 9, but until I tried getting this ttyUSB device to work it wasn't an issue. If you open YaST from the menu bar and select "Hardware"->"Graphics Card and Monitor" to start Sax, when you configure one you'll see a list of devices; I believe that the list has always been USB, /dev/ttyS0,...,/dev/ttyS3. It doesn't matter how many serial ports your machine has, the list is the same. The "Network Devices"->"Modems" tool shows a similar list, which again has little to do with the actual devices present on the machine. Leslie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
